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White Vengeance (2011) Review

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Director: Daniel Lee Cast: Leon Lai Ming, Zhang Han Yu, Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Jordan Chan Siu Chun, Crystal Liu Yi Fei, Fang Shao Feng, Andy On Chi Kit, Jia Qing, Wu Ma, Chen Kuan Tai, Chan Chi Fai, Ding Hai Feng, Du Yiheng, Xu Xiang Dong Running Time: 135 min.

By HKFanatic

Director Daniel Lee has long seemed to struggle to find his identity as a filmmaker in the wake of his breakout 1996 hit “ Black Mask .” After that movie, he produced the tournament fight flick “Star Runner” (AKA “The Kumite”) and the English/Cantonese crossover of “Dragon Squad,” both of which received lukewarm reviews. Since then he’s found a niche making historical epics like “Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon” and “14 Blades,” but something feels missing.

His latest movie, “White Vengeance,” follows in the footsteps of films like “Hero” and “Red Cliff” by mixing real-life figures with fantastical action scenes, but it doesn’t come anywhere close to the heights of those genre standouts. Despite decent performances from familiar Hong Kong faces like Leon Lai and Anthony Wong, “White Vengeance” suffers from sluggish pacing and poor action directing. All of this makes me wonder if the visually kinetic and comic book-like flair of “ Black Mask ” wasn’t the result of producer Tsui Hark playing a more ‘hands on’ role.

Dusty and drab, “White Vengeance” feels bogged down by its own self-importance. The story zeroes in on the events of the Hongmen Banquet, a major event in Chinese history, and then tries to examine the conflict from all sides. In a time of uncertainty, two great military men are vying for the position of Emperor – but they couldn’t be more different. Leon Lai’s General strives for equality and fairness for the people, while Shaofeng Feng’s character seems more driven by personal interests. First impressions aren’t always the most accurate, however, and as they say ‘absolutely power corrupts absolutely.’ The viewer will have their perception of these characters flipped more than once over the course of the film’s 135 minute runtime.

“White Vengeance” features solid acting turns from regulars like Jordan Chan and Andy On, but it’s Hanyu Zhang and Anthony Wong that steal the show as two competing military strategists. Their conflict is illustrated visually halfway through the film with an intense game of chess that actually sees Zhang coughing up blood(!) as he plays. Sure, a game of chess fought with Chi-like powers is a bit over the top – but it provides a much needed boost of energy during the film’s lagging middle portion.

The real issue here is that audiences, even on this side of the globe, are becoming overly familiar with the Chinese historical genre – and “White Vengeance” doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the table. The art of military strategy was already depicted wonderfully in movies like “Red Cliff” and “ The Lost Bladesmen ,” which benefitted from dazzling action choreography to boot. Daniel Lee must have had difficulty getting enough camera coverage for the battle sequences, as he instead relies on a familiar hail of computer-generated arrows to sell the scale of the conflicts. After you’ve seen the best the genre has to offer, it’s hard to go back to shakycam and limp fight scenes in a movie like “White Vengeance.”

Devout followers of Chinese history or the actors involved should find plenty to enjoy in “White Vengeance.” But if you’re starting to feel you’ve seen everything this genre has to offer, “White Vengeance” won’t change your mind. Here’s hoping that Daniel Lee stops looking to the history books for inspiration and is able to channel the manic energy and flair of “ Black Mask ” into his next project.

HKFanatic’s Rating: 5.5/10

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The Chinese need to learn how to make good movies again. At least learn how to make good action movies again. Some of the old shaw movies put these new ones to shame.

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Totally agree. I shy away from a lot of these so-called epics. They’re too worried about lavish sets, high budgets and over dramatic acting. That’s what I like about the old school flicks (Chang Cheh, etc). They pumped ‘em out like potato chips, but almost everyone was quality.

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White Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell into chaos. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, became leaders of the rebellious army, and also became sworn brothers in battle.Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are close friends who both serve King Huai of Chu. King Huai uses a plot, saying that whoever can subvert the Qin kingdom in Guanzhong would be the Lord Qin, in order to benefit from the competition between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is over-confident. He fights against the main force of Qin army, and entrusts Liu Bang with Yu Ji, the woman he loves.Liu Bang expresses his love to Yu Ji and takes the chance to invade Guanzhong first when most of Qin army is outside fighting against Xiang Yu’s army.

Leon Lai William Feng Liu Yifei Zhang Hanyu Anthony Wong Chau-Sang Jordan Chan Andy On Jia Qing Du Yiheng Chen Kuan-Tai Chen Zhihui Wu Ma Zhao Wenhao Xu Xiangdong Ding Haifeng Yuming Du Zhao Huinan Xiu Qing Sun Wen-Ting Meng Tong-Di Ye Xinyu Huang Zi-Qi Zhou Chuan-Xi Yang Zhe Geng Yi Sun Jiaolong Yang Yu Cheng

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The Banquet, Hong men yan, Hong men yan chuan qi, 鸿门宴传奇, 鴻門宴, 鴻門宴(2011), White Vengeance - Kampf um die Qin-Dynastie, Le Dernier royaume, Beyaz intikam, 초한지 - 천하대전, Bílá pomsta, Podstępna Gra, Fehér bosszú, 鴻門宴傳奇, Hồng Môn Yến, Venganza blanca, انتقام سپید

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Benito

Review by Benito ★★★

For those familiar with the “Three Dynasty” era, White Vengeance is another addition to this magnificent story that not only contains some of China's most legendary heroes and mythical tales but which also adds to the mysticism and meaningful significance to its history. Yet where White Vengeance nicely succeeds it overall falls short in its real offering. A visually appealing film that like its peers offers limitless landscapes, colorfully detailed costumes, and characters that flourish and ignite on screen as awe-inspiring figures, especially during the intense confrontations and well choreographed fight scenes that in some instances felt could easily rival The Lord of the Rings magnitude, it is the film’s rhythm unfortunately that takes away from these positives, as the…

Tommy_KO

Review by Tommy_KO ★★★★

A historic tale of the Han dynasty's beginnings with a tale of two rebel warlords intent on bringing down the already failing Qin dynasty, pitted against each other by a king by being promised the first to conquer a Qin region would become king of said region. Visually the film is stunning with beautiful scenery and the set design and costumes are excellent and a great score ties it all up. some really good action scenes and epic battles. A little bit of a slow film that dragged a little bit but still a really good film.

Ed Küpfer

Review by Ed Küpfer ★★

Dull historical epic about two warlords vying for the throne.

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Review by gusace ★★★★★

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Review by Karl Janssen ★★½

White Vengeance is a beautiful Chinese period epic set around 206 BC. The sets, costumes, and locations are all top-notch. The art direction and cinematography are really gorgeous. The action scenes are also very well-directed. Like seemingly all Chinese war films, there are superhuman feats of strength and agility here that defy realism, but overall the battle scenes are impressive and have a gritty air of authenticity about them in that the viewer can really feel himself amid the fray. Director Daniel Lee even manages to make a match of the board game Go feel like hand-to-hand combat. There is some CGI employed in this film, but it's never obvious, never phony-looking, and always tastefully done. I like the look…

Bo Just Bo

Review by Bo Just Bo ★

How to make a boring historical epic, chinese style. 1: write a script with too many characters to care about. 2: get a director that doesn't know how to properly use slow motion or fast motion but loves to use them both. 3: spend a boat load of money on sets and costumes, then paint it all the same color so that the movie looks drab at best, confusing at worst. 4: sprinkle in some B-grade cgi every now and then.

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Spectacular!

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Review by Boost ★★

135 minutes? Really? Long dramatic pauses and superfluous B-story could have been cut. Lee is a good director, but this look at the time between the Qin and Han dynasties is dull, even with fantastic cinematography and costumes. This is primarily a historical drama about political and battle strategy. Impressive amount of extras, and great settings, probably good for fans of the boring parts of Game of Thrones .

Pat_Mtl

Review by Pat_Mtl ★★★½

Nice movie as long as you are not expecting too much action. Some action scenes but they are spaced out and it's not a typical wuxia movie. I compare it a little Curse Of The Golden Flower. If you want action I suggested you look at something else, this movie will leave you wanting

Freeman Williams

Review by Freeman Williams ★★★

The Chinese have been doing great historic epics, and this is certainly one, though its determination to separate itself from the pack may work against it.

This is the tale of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, two warlords fighting against the Qin Dynasty; a wily King manages to break the bond between the two men by stating whoever takes over a certain city first will almost certainly eventually become Emperor. The ebb and flow of fortune between the two is what forms the story.

Where White Vengeance seeks to differ itself is, although the usual cavalry charges and moving armies are there (and well staged), most of the drama comes from the battle of wits between the two men's advisers,…

YuanFang

Review by YuanFang ★★

2018/05/06 CCTV6 节奏略快,不知道是不是央视故意快进播放的问题。黎明演的不错,只是把刘邦演成了刘备,黄秋生和张涵予的鸿门宴弈棋算是拍得最好的地方。剧情改编的幅度很大,bug也很多,很多台词欠缺打磨,如此豪华的阵容拍成这样,李仁港功底一般,请陈凯歌来拍会更好一些。

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  • White Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell into chaos. Liu Bang (Leon Lai) and Xiang Yu (Feng Shaofeng), became leaders of the rebellious army, and also became sworn brothers in battle. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are close friends who both serve King Huai of Chu. King Huai uses a plot, saying that whoever can subvert the Qin kingdom in Guanzhong would be the Lord Qin, in order to benefit from the competition between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is over-confident. He fights against the main force of Qin army, and entrusts Liu Bang with Yu Ji (Liu Yifei), the woman he loves. Liu Bang expresses his love to Yu Ji and takes the chance to invade Guanzhong first when most of Qin army is outside fighting against Xiang Yu's army. Xiang Yu is furious & betrayed when he found it. Xiang planned to kill Liu at a banquet held in Hong Men, during which Zhang Liang (Zhang Hanyu), the mastermind of Liu Bang, and Fan Zeng (Anthony Wong), the mastermind of Xiang Yu, have a direct confrontation. But who will emerge as the winner from this epic battle and survive to claim their path to the crown? — umutsuslu

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White Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell into chaos. Liu Bang (Leon Lai) and Xiang Yu (Feng Shaofeng), became leaders of the rebellious army, and also became sworn brothers in battle. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are close friends who both serve King Huai of Chu. King Huai uses a plot, saying that whoever can subvert the Qin kingdom in Guanzhong would be the Lord Qin, in order to benefit from the competition between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is over-confident. He fights against the main force of Qin army, and entrusts Liu Bang with Yu Ji (Liu Yifei), the woman he loves. Liu Bang expresses his love to Yu Ji and takes the chance to invade Guanzhong first when most of Qin army is outside fighting against Xiang Yu's army. Xiang Yu is furious & betrayed when he found it. Xiang planned to kill Liu at a banquet held in Hong Men, during which Zhang Liang (Zhang Hanyu), the mastermind of Liu Bang, and Fan Zeng (Anthony Wong), the mastermind of Xiang Yu, have a direct confrontation. But who will emerge as the winner from this epic battle and survive to claim their path to the crown?

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has a puzzling English-language title, but beyond that this Daniel Lee-directed historical drama makes complete sense – that is, if you brush up on your Chinese history and walk in with the proper context. Some coffee would help too, because at 138 minutes, is a long haul. The film's Chinese-language title refers to the Hongmen Banquet (a.k.a. The Feast at Hong Gate), a famous event in 206 BC that helped to determine the post-Qin ruler of China. The contestants: the Western Chu and Han Kingdoms, led by their respective generals Xiang Yu (mainland heartthrob Feng Shaofeng) and Liu Bang (Leon Lai). As the story goes, the two were among the most prominent leaders of the forces rebelling against the Qin Dynasty, and though Xiang Yu had the stronger force, it was Liu Bang who occupied Qin capital Xianyang and gained the Qin emperor's surrender. Ergo, the Han are now China's ruling force and Liu Bang gets to call the shots.

Naturally, Xiang Yu is pissed and rides to claim his self-appointed place upon China’s throne. Liu Bang is seemingly humble, offering to turn over China’s reins to Xiang Yu – though there are many reasons why that won’t happen. For one, Liu Bang’s allies prefer Liu Bang’s sensible leadership over Xiang Yu’s hot-blooded power-mongering, plus Liu Bang has a trump card: he’s in possession of Xiang Yu’s consort Yuji (Liu Yifei). However, the righteous Liu Bang wouldn’t dream of using her against Xiang Yu. Or would he? Neither side is entirely sure what the other side will do, but both want the other side out of the way. Enter the Hongmen Banquet, where the two sides are supposed to engage in an amicable handover of power between Xiang Yu and Liu Yang. But Xiang Yu may choose to assassinate Liu Bang instead. Similarly, Liu Bang may pre-emptively take action against Xiang Yu. Which side will surprise the other by doing something aggressive, even though both sides expect something surprising, and plan to subvert those surprises with their own surprises? And will anyone ever serve food at this banquet?

Maybe there food served at the Hongmen Banquet, and maybe it’ll be seen in , director Lu Chuan’s forthcoming film on this same historical event. However, there’s no food to be seen in the version of the Hongmen Banquet – that is, except for one unexpected snack that Fan Kuai (Jordan Chan) consumes in order to support Liu Bang and tick off Xiang Yu. Fan Kuai’s gambit amps the tension, but it’s simply another chess move as both sides jockey for position through thinly-disguised double-talk, sly misdirection and just plain insincerity, before the whole banquet collapses and both sides openly resolve to be enemies. Though the event itself is a minefield of mind games and betrayal tropes, Lee only focuses on the titular banquet briefly before ceding to the grander drama of armies massing and people realizing that their friend is now their enemy, but they may respect their friend more now because as their enemy, they see just how damn cool that friend is. Yep, is a “frenemy” movie rife with male bonding and heroic brotherhood iconography. The Warring States period is always ace for film or TV adaptations because this rampant frenemy action is usually awesome.

Sadly, the frenemy aspect of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu’s relationship is weak. Feng Shaofeng struts assuredly as the rock star-like Xiang Yu, but Leon Lai is cold and even dopey as the supposedly cunning Liu Bang. Lai improves as the film progresses, but he ultimately fails to convey the conflict or loss that Liu Bang experiences. Similarly, Xiang Yu and Yuji’s relationship is nigh-uninteresting, though Daniel Lee forces it upon us as some sort of tragic romance. The male characters are very entertaining though; the film features numerous interesting hero types, from the loyal-to-a-fault Fan Kuai (Jordan Chan playing Chicken in Ancient China) to the kickass General Han (a charismatic Andy On) to wise councillor Zhang Liang (Zhang Hanyu in the film’s best performance). A sage super-thinker who may be playing mind games with everyone at once, Zhang Liang has his own frenemy action going on with Xiang Yu’s councillor Fan Zeng (a hammy Anthony Wong), which starts at the Hongmen Banquet over some games of Go before spiralling into some smart “five moves ahead” strategic action with real life consequences. It’s these strategic mind games that make most entertaining because really, that’s where the action in the Hongmen Banquet story is.

The problem here is that some audiences may not find such action entertaining, and indeed suffers because much of that drama is based on audience familiarity with the event’s iconic status. This assumption of audience knowledge is not necessarily wrong, as we’re dealing with real historical events that most everyone in China should know. However, the film does not do a good job of introducing its subject to the audience – especially a Western one who are likely tuning in for reasons besides strategic mind games. Action here is mostly montage and predetermined in its outcome, so those expecting finely-choreographed and exciting throwdowns will be put off, and the battles themselves are mostly perfunctory. What works in is its story, which has a strong thematic payoff that’s decently if not superbly developed. There’s added power in this portrayal of the Hongmen Banquet besides the requisite betrayal tropes. That added power? Giving it away would be a spoiler, but the themes are tragic and suitable for anything with William Shakespeare’s name attached. There is a classic idea here that audiences everywhere should appreciate.

That is, if they can follow what’s going on - which they may not be able to. The downside to all the mindgames and frenemy posturing is it’s hard to bring across onscreen unless the director is really, really good. John Woo is a director who can obviously handle such material, while Daniel Lee only convinces in that he’s still Daniel Lee – that is, a director who’s good with visuals, but only in service of unsubtle commercial pictures with verbalized meaning. is out of his reach, and it shows through his overwrought handling of the film’s romance, plus the totally ridiculous staging of the Hongmen Banquet itself. Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng’s Go matches are staged like a music video dance-off, with crazy moving camera, wind effects and characters gesturing like they’re about to Hadoken someone. The scene lends the film a schizophrenic feel, between stately tragedy and cinematic histrionics, and while the whole is entertaining, it’s hard to say that it’s quality. is mostly successful for what it’s about and where it ends, and not for what really happens along the way. Prediction: Lu Chuan’s will spend a whole lot more time at the Hongmen Banquet. It will also be a better film. (Kozo, 2011)

 

   
   
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White Vengeance, also known as Hong Men Yan, is a 2011 Chinese historical film directed by Daniel Lee, starring Leon Lai, Feng Shaofeng, Liu Yifei, Zhang Hanyu, Anthony Wong, Jordan Chan, Andy On, Xiu Qing and Jia Qing. The film is loosely based on events in the Chu–Han Contention, an interregnum between the fall of the Qin dynasty and the founding of the Han dynasty in Chinese history. The film's Chinese title is a reference to the Feast at Hong Gate, one of the highlights of that era.

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“Vengeance” sounds like the title of an action thriller. There have been films with that name before. But although vengeance is discussed in “Vengeance”—the first feature from writer/director/star B.J. Novak, co-star and co-writer of the American version of “The Office”—it has a lot more on its mind. Too much, probably. 

The story begins in earnest when New Yorker writer and aspiring public intellectual Ben Manalowitz (Novak) gets a call at his Manhattan apartment late one night from Ty Shaw ( Boyd Holbrook ), who lives in one of the flattest backwaters in West Texas, a small town five hours’ drive from Abilene, which is two hours and forty minutes from Dallas. Ty is calling to tell Ben that his sister, Ben’s girlfriend—who is oddly also named Abilene, Abby for short—has died. 

Ben doesn’t have a girlfriend named Abby. He’s a player who hooks up with many women. But a quick check of his phone confirms that he did indeed have sex with an aspiring singer named Abby ( Lio Tipton ) a few times and then forgot about her. Somehow he ends up letting himself be talked into traveling to Abby’s hometown, attending her funeral, and commiserating with her grieving family, which also includes her younger sisters Paris ( Isabella Amara ) and Kansas City ( Dove Cameron ), her kid brother El Stupido (Elli Abrams Beckel), and her mother Sharon (J. Smith-Cameron). Then Ty tells Ben that Abby was murdered, probably by a Mexican drug dealer named Sancholo ( Zach Villa ), and asks if he’ll help the family seek, well, you know.

Ben is a narcissist who seems to view every relationship and experience as a way of raising his status as a writer and quasi-celebrity, so it seems unbelievable at first that he’d travel to Texas to attend the funeral of a woman he didn’t really know. But the notion begins to seem more plausible once he starts talking to the family and slotting them into his prefabricated East Coast media-industrial-complex notions of “red state” and “blue state” people, and spinning his theories about temporal dislocation. Modern technology, he says, allows every person to exist in every moment except the present if they so choose. The desire for vengeance, we are told, is exclusively a backward-looking urge.

Intrigued by the possibility of writing the equivalent of a great American novel in the form of a podcast (he even name-checks Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood ) Ben decides to stick around to gather material for an audio series, which will be created under the supervision of his friend Eloise, a New York-based podcast editor for a National Public Radio-like organization. (As Eloise, Issa Rae works wonders with a thinly written role.)

If Ben’s creative vision sounds like the kind of navel-gazing blather that you’d hear on a true crime podcast in which an actual person’s murder becomes a springboard for brunchy rumination on law and truth and the nature of yadda yadda  by a group of Ivy League college graduates based in Brooklyn, well, Ben is aware that he’s sliding towards that cliché—and so is Eloise, who early on makes a joke to the effect that Ben is the only white man in America without a podcast. And yet, true to media form, they embrace the templates, tropes, and clichés anyway. 

Unfortunately, so does the movie. Like “The Daily Show” and its many imitators—and like Jon Stewart’s recent film “ Irresistible “—this is a movie that chastises its protagonist and the “red state” people he engages with for failing to look beyond the clichés they’re fed by their own self-enclosed media loops, while at the same time dining out on them. On one side of the great divide is a nation of “coastal elites” (driven by Harvard-educated Jewish people like Ben) who name-drop cultural tidbits that they learned in college and never revisited; sneer at monogamy, and think everything between the coasts that’s not a Top Ten city is a barbaric wasteland. The inhabitants of said wasteland are people whose favorite restaurant is Whataburger and have several guns in the house for every person (including the kids) and use them to settle their differences rather than calling 911. 

Intriguingly, though, even as “Vengeance” checks box after box on the op-ed chart of American shorthand, it also presents a number of characters with idiosyncrasies and layers that we’ve never seen in a movie before. Ben himself is quite a piece of work, and it’s to Novak’s credit that we eventually dig past Ben’s buzzwords and NPR-ready voice and see the character’s self-loathing (and, it would appear, the filmmaker’s) at realizing that he’s a prisoner of the same limited thinking he decries. (Ben often plays more like the protagonist of a French comedy than an American one—or like the characters played by Canadian satirist Ken Finkleman in “The Newsroom” and “More Tears.”) There’s little discussion of racial grievance as a motivation for politics in the film, and nobody mentions Trump, Greg Abbott, or the transformation of Texas into an authoritarian nation-state. The movie takes the audience into a minefield but tactfully declines to point out most of the mines. But these threats lurk under the surface, and they do occasionally explode—particularly when the drug epidemic that’s decimating white middle-America comes to the forefront of the story.

The supporting cast boasts a number of characters who seem one-note during their introductions but quickly assert their spiky individualism. Smith-Cameron seems underutilized at first, but becomes the emotional anchor of Ben’s story, and her final scene is powerful. There are several terrific scenes involving Abby’s onetime record producer Quinten Sellers, kind of a Phil Spector of West Texas who lives and works in a combination home, studio, and cult compound, and regales his talent and hangers-on with monologues about time, space, individuality, art, drugs, and hedonism that Marlon Brando or Dennis Hopper might have delivered in a 1970s American art film. Sellers is played by  Ashton Kutcher in what might be a career-best performance. With his polite but eerie intensity, ten-gallon white cowboy hat, and lanky frame, it’s as if Sam Shepard had come back to play Col. Walter Kurtz.

Novak is a thoughtful writer with a lot of things to say about the United States of America in the year 2022. The problem is that he seems determined to say all of them in one feature film. The result is a jumbled, fitfully amusing, occasionally fascinating effort, but one that shows promise even when it’s stumbling over its ambition and falling prey to some of the same stereotypes about “red” and “blue” (or reactionary and progressive) America that it keeps intimating that Americans need to get beyond. The first 15 minutes are borderline awful, but the movie gets better and more surprising as it goes, and the final act is impressive in its determination not to give the audience what it wants. Novak is famous enough that he could’ve cobbled together an onanistic two hours of nothing and still gotten into South by Southwest with it, but he decided to try to make a real movie. 

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Out for Vengeance: Ten Essential Revenge Movies

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Casey Chong with ten essential revenge movies…

The long-gestating reboot of The Crow , which famously suffered from development hell as early as 2008 with numerous directors and actors coming and going, has finally flown into cinemas, starring Bill Skarsgård as the titular character with Rupert Sanders of the live-action Hollywood version of Ghost in the Shell directing [ read our review here ]. And so, we’re taking a look back at ten essential revenge-themed movies about avenging the death of loved ones. Check them out here, in alphabetical order…

Blue Ruin (2013)

Violence begets violence in Jeremy Saulnier’s second movie, Blue Ruin . It’s a revenge thriller with a dash of dark humor that doesn’t sugarcoat on the violence as the story follows Dwight Evans (Macon Blair in a subtle lead performance), a vagrant who lives in his old beat-up car and scraps whatever edible food he can find in the garbage bags. Then, he learns about a killer freed from prison and everything changes.

Saulnier approaches his movie in a minimalist fashion with no flashbacks to fill us in other than giving us sufficient, need-to-know basis. What we have here is Dwight’s quest to track down the killer who kills his parents two decades earlier. He takes matters into his own hands but his vengeance against the person only triggers a series of consequences, resulting in an otherwise typical revenge-thriller territory that subverts the audience’s expectations. In Saulnier’s point of view, revenge isn’t merely a one-man mission that takes courage to kill someone. It can be a double-edged sword that complicate matters when the vengeful protagonist finds himself unexpectedly deal with an aftermath.

Death Wish (1974)

This classic genre film sets the tone about a vigilante (typically a white or blue-collar civilian) ends up taking matters into his or her own hands killing those who deserved to die. Although Death Wish spawned four sequels and a 2018 remake, the 1974 original remains the best in the film series. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a mild-mannered architect and family man based in New York. But his life changes forever when a trio of muggers (one of which includes then-unknown young Jeff Goldblum’s big-screen debut) assault his family. His wife, Joanna (Hope Lange) is beaten to death while their daughter, Carol (Kathleen Tolan) is brutally raped.

Director Michael Winner envisions New York City as a city of hopelessness and despair with Charles Bronson’s Paul Kersey becoming the judge, jury, and executioner of a vigilante in getting rid of street crime. Bronson’s perfectly stoic personality fits the role of a remorseless vigilante while Winner doesn’t shy away from graphic violence and sex.

I Saw the Devil (2010)

Director Kim Jee-Woon brings the familiar terms of revenge and violence begets violence to the next level in I Saw the Devil . Vengeance for NIS agent Soo-Hyun (Lee Byung-Hun) isn’t a one-time kill because he wants Kyung-Chul (Choi Min-Sik), the serial killer who is responsible for the grisly death of her fiancé (On San-Ha) to suffer. So, he tracks him down and what follows next is a mean-spirited depravity of cat and mouse game.

The movie is not for the squeamish because Kim Jee-Woon pulls no punches when comes to graphic violence, blood, and gore. The game in question revolves around Soo-Hyun’s unorthodox method of catch-and-release the serial killer before torturing him and letting him go again. And vice versa, making him feel the utmost pain imaginable. I Saw the Devil is a pure visceral cinema not only in its depiction of the revenge genre but also a hard-hitting metaphor of one’s inner rage, desperation, and deep sorrow.

John Wick (2014)

The last three John Wick movies are more about the level of insanity and creativity in delivering the intricately choreographed action set pieces. But all these wouldn’t have happened if the seed isn’t firmly planted in the first movie. The one that started it all. Before all the world-building structures that introduce us more characters in the John Wick universe, the first movie tells a simple story about the titular retired assassin (Keanu Reeves) spending his days grieving for the loss of his beloved wife, Helen (Bridget Moynahan). What he has now is a puppy that his wife left for him. But everything turns upside down when an arrogant Russian gangster, Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) leads his men to break into John’s house, kill the puppy and even steal the Mustang. Bad mistake and all hell break loose as John reverts to his old ways on a revenge mission.

What makes John Wick such an iconic genre movie is the propulsive action beats of John’s ability in dispatching his enemy using guns with pinpoint accuracy under any circumstances. He’s quick, agile and above all, he has nothing to lose. Chad Stahelski’s direction is top-notch as he favors lots of practical stunts over CG-heavy set pieces. The elaborate choreography is both stylish and thrillingly staged and at the heart of the movie is Keanu Reeves’ uber-cool lead performance as John Wick.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2003, 2004)

It’s a free-flow of blood, rage, and mayhem in Quentin Tarantino’s two-part Kill Bill saga. The story follows The Bride (Uma Thurman), a former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is left for dead during her wedding rehearsal. Her husband is shot to death and so does her unborn child but she somehow survives. After recuperation, she subsequently tracks down her former colleagues responsible for the massacre.

The first movie pays homage to old-school Shaw Brothers kung fu genre and samurai movie with a notable callback to the late Bruce Lee’s iconic yellow-and-black jumpsuit seen in Game of Death . The latter has Thurman’s The Bride donning the aforementioned jumpsuit as she engages in a blood-soaked swordfight against the Crazy 88 gang, Chiaki Kuriyama’s Gogo Yubari, and Lucy Liu’s O-Ren Ishii – easily one of the greatest action sequences ever seen in the 21st century.

The second movie references heavily from the Western genre, notably the ‘60s era including Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (the crawling-out-of-the-grave scene) and Once Upon a Time in the West (the blurred shot of The Bride walking through the desert). There’s a shade of Shaw Brothers kung fu movie, notably on The Bride’s gruelling training session with martial arts master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu). Kill Bill Vol. 2 culminates in a final showdown between The Bride a.k.a. Beatrix Kiddo and the titular Bill played by David Carradine with one of the martial arts moves known as “the five point palm exploding heart technique” inspired by 1977’s Executioners of Shaolin .

The Brave One (2007)

Neil Jordan put a feminist spin on the vigilante classic Death Wish , substituting Charles Bronson’s Paul Kersey with Jodie Foster playing a radio host who ends up taking justice into her own hands in The Brave One . The movie may have trodden familiar ground with been-there, done-that kind of story but Jordan’s assured direction helps elevating it. He made us root for the protagonist’s plight, whose doctor-fiancé (Naveen Andrews) is brutally beaten to death by three street thugs in Central Park. He also successfully captured the aftermath that forever scarred Jodie Foster’s Erica, focusing on her internal fear and paranoia through disorienting camera angles and how she initially has trouble leaving her apartment.

The Brave One also benefits from Jodie Foster’s engaging lead turn as Erica as she convincingly evolves from a scared victim to a reluctant vigilante killing those who deserve to die with a gun that she bought illegally. Credit also goes to Jordan for not resorting her vigilante justice and the act of gun violence to a gratuitous exploitation fantasy. Her character may grow addicted as she is getting used to killing but the movie never goes over the top with just enough subtle restraint in between.

The Crow (1994)

The late Brandon Lee tragically died making this 1994 cult classic. Based on James O’Barr’s graphic novel, Lee plays the rock musician Eric Draven who returns from the dead to avenge the murder of his beloved girlfriend. Dressing in skintight black clothes and a Goth-style, pasty white makeup, he sets out on a revenge mission to kill the responsible thugs played by David Patrick Kelly, Angel David, Laurence Mason, and Michael Massee.

The Crow marks the second directorial feature for Alex Proyas and here, his extensive music video background is put to good use. He incorporates dark and gothic visual palette that looks stylish with Graeme Revell’s ominous score perfectly fits the macabre tone of the movie. At the heart of the movie is Brandon Lee, whose lead performance as the sympathetic and vengeful Eric Draven showcases his dramatic acting prowess apart from his martial arts background.

The Foreigner (2017)

Martin Campbell’s works tend to be erratic but The Foreigner thankfully isn’t one of them. It’s a gritty revenge thriller that showcases a different side of Jackie Chan for a change since the international martial arts superstar is often associated with action comedies. He plays Quan, a father who is devastated with the death of his teenage daughter (Katie Leung) killed in a terrorist bombing. He’s determined to find out the culprit responsible for his daughter’s death, which subsequently leads him to a shady British high-ranking government official played by Pierce Brosnan.

The Foreigner may get too weighty for its own good covering terrorism, conspiracy, and corruption instead of streamlining it as a straightforward revenge thriller. But Campbell still manages to bring out the best in Chan’s no-nonsense performance while his character being a former Special Forces means we get to see him in the action mode. The movie made the right choice not to showcase him in his usual acrobatic stunts as Campbell favors more on brutal hand-to-hand combats. The fight scenes are crisply edited with Campbell’s technical know-how in putting together propulsive action, resulting in one of the better Jackie Chan-starred in years.

The Nightingale (2018)

Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to 2014’s The Babadook sees the writer-director shifted from psychological horror to the grim territory of rape-revenge and brutally honest depiction of racial oppression and colonial violence. The first 30 minutes is a harrowing, matter-of-fact ordeal as we witness the titular married Irish woman, Clare (Aisling Franciosi in a sympathetic lead role) suffers from one assault after another. It all started with Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), and the situation gets worse from there when he and his two fellow soldiers, Ruse (Damon Herriman) and Jago (Harry Greenwood) show up in her home one night, gang-raped her and killed her husband (Michael Sheasby) and their baby daughter.

The Nightingale is graphic but never gratuitous. It’s more realistic in its overall portrayal while Clare’s subsequent journey of tracking down the three responsible soldiers with the help of an Aboriginal tracker, Billy (Baykali Ganambarr) is anything but straightforward. Revenge may have fuelled Clare’s anger and determination but like her treacherous journey throughout the movie, things get unpredictable. Kent isn’t interested in streamlining her movie and give us directly what we want the most. Sure, the vile soldiers who turn Clare’s life upside down do get their comeuppance. But, at the same time, the movie also delves deeper into Clare’s psychological trauma and the colonial horror against the Aboriginal Tasmanian community.

Unforgiven (1992)

The Oscar-winning Unforgiven finds actor-director Clint Eastwood, working from David Webb Peoples’ screenplay, deconstructs the Western genre as the story focuses on the morally gray area in the Old West. There’s nothing mythical in this movie as seen in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy as Eastwood depicts the harsh reality of living and surviving in the Old West, complete with matter-of-fact violence and death.

Revenge plays a huge part in Unforgiven not only from the sex workers who band together to exact vengeance against the men responsible for disfiguring one of them by offering a $1,000 bounty, but also William Munny’s (Clint Eastwood) subsequent personal vendetta against the tyrannical “Little Bill” played by Gene Hackman. The latter leads to a bleak and brutal third act with none of the glorification and romanticization of the eventual showdown between William Munny and “Little Bill”.

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In a time of tyranny and oppression, deception is everywhere. Insurgency swells among the people as two brothers battle for supremacy and the love of a woman during the fall of the Qin Dynasty. Liu Bang (Leon Lai, BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS) and Xiang Fu (Feng Shaofeng, XI YOU JI), once united but now locked in combat to rule the insurgent lands in a recreation of history's famed bloody battle for rule and dominion, known as the Feast at Hong Gate. Witness the beginning of the Red Cliff rebellion with this historic clash, directed by Daniel Lee (3 KINGDOMS, BLACK MASK).

An epic story of loyalty, betrayal and the thirst for power --Twitchfilm.com White Vengeance is on par with John Woo s Red Cliff. --japancinema.net Exciting and emotional...a punch in the gut --Twitchfilm.com

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  • Director ‏ : ‎ Daniel Lee
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  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Shaofeng Feng, Leon Lai, Hanyu Zhang
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